A company authorized by the Republic of Slovenia started scanning the documents in the archives of the former Main Office of the Ljubljanska Bank in Sarajevo.
Slovenia, the country that is executing the judgment by the European Court for Human Rights in the case Ališić, needs the documents in order to verify the old foreign currency requests of savers, stated the Embassy of Slovenia in BiH.
Scanning and entering of data into the verification system will be completed in the fall, when Slovenia will start processing requests by savers in the Sarajevo office. First payments to the savers who submitted complete requests will be paid to their current accounts by the end of this year.
Documentation in the former office is not complete, because the archive does not dispose with data from all branch offices that used to be a part of the office of the Ljubljanska Bank in Sarajevo. In the case of savers whose identity cannot be checked in the scanned documentation, the procedure of verification will take more time and will demand cooperation of relevant bodies of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
On April 27 this year, Slovenia and BiH signed an agreement on the access to the data of the former Main Office Sarajevo, their scanning and the beginning of verification in Slovenia. The agreement was greeted by the Council of the European Union, which supervises the execution of the verdicts by the European Court for Human Rights.
Based on this agreement and after the exchange of diplomatic notes and the implementation of the necessary internal-legal procedures, on June 6 this year BiH allowed Slovenia, i.e. its authorized company, to access the archives of the Main Office Sarajevo and scan the documents.
(Source: novovrijeme.ba/photo: Aljazeera Balkans)
